New searchengine

The day is not far when an online search engine would be giving netizens direct answers to their queries rather than web pages containing them, if researchers are to be believed. It is hoped that, to build a grand metasearch engine one day that would integrate all of the one million small search engines into a single system. There are still a lot of significant challenges in creating a system of such magnitude, but I am optimistic that such a metasearch engine can be built.

Microsoft layoffs...

Today recession is taking place all over the world... Because of this many companies are laying off their workers in 1000's. In this row Microsoft too had joined. It has been asked to cut its workforce by 10%, or about 9,100 employees, to tell the market that profits are more important than revenue growth in difficult times. Thus recession made things too worse. It is said that there have been close to 20 lakh layoffs in 2008 alone. So some care should be taken by all the countries to stop this recession.

Social network really works...

We all know that social networking has really increased a lot in past few years. Nothing will work without network. It helps us to enlarge our environment. The year 2008 witnessed great growth for social media, sharing and networking properties and applications. More than 60% of the Indian internet users are using one of the social media platforms. We are witnessing a co-existence of global, local and niche based social networking platforms. Besides broad based networks, categories such as professional, education, entertainment and games will emerge as strong growth drivers for the social media. The second aspect that emerged in 2008 was the fact that young users in the age group of 18 to 24 from tier II and tier III cities began to aggressively enroll into social networking platforms. This is a healthy trend, given that social networking satisfies key needs of this young population besides enabling them to express across borders. To sum up, 2008 has been a remarkable year as consumer, advertisers and the entertainment industry have been able to realize the growing popularity of online space. Thus it is expected that this will continue at a much faster pace in this present year.